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Paper, Ink, and Achievement
Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship
By Kevin L. Cope (Edited by), Cedric D. Reverand II (Edited by), James E May (Contributions by), Leah Orr (Contributions by)

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During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of 'long' eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, 'Gabe' initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein's life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies.


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During his forty-two years as president of AMS Press, Gabriel Hornstein quietly sponsored and stimulated the revival of 'long' eighteenth-century studies. Whether by reanimating long-running research publications; by creating scholarly journals; or by converting daring ideas into lauded books, 'Gabe' initiated a golden age of Enlightenment scholarship. This understated publishing magnate created a global audience for a research specialty that many scholars dismissed as antiquarianism. Paper, Ink, and Achievement finds in the career of this impresario a vantage point on the modern study of the Enlightenment. An introduction discusses Hornstein's life and achievements, revealing the breadth of his influence on our understanding of the early days of modernity. Three sets of essays open perspectives on the business of long-eighteenth-century studies: on the role of publishers, printers, and bibliophiles in manufacturing cultural legacies; on authors whose standing has been made or eclipsed by the book culture; and on literary modes that have defined, delimited, or directed Enlightenment studies.

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1684482518
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10 black & white images, 2 colour images
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Table of Contents


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Foreword: Gabriel Hornstein (1935–2017)
Cedric D. Reverand II
Introduction
Kevin L. Cope
Section I: On Publishing
Chapter 1: Raising the Price of Literature: The Benefactions of William Strahan and Bennet Cerf
J. T. Scanlan
Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Publishers and the Creation of a Fiction Canon
Leah Orr
Chapter 3: Elizabeth Sadleir, Master Printer in Dublin, 1715–1727
James E. May
Section 2: Neglected Authors
Chapter 4: Ihara Saikaku and the Cash Nexus in Edo-Era Osaka
Susan Spencer
Chapter 5: Frances Brooke, Rosina, Sense and Sensibility
Linda Troost
Chapter 6: “Justus Lipsius, Alexander Pope, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Manuel Schonhorn
Section 3: Reevaluating Literary Modes
Chapter 7: “When Worlds Collide”: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review
Brett C. McInelly
Chapter 8: Swift, Dryden, Virgil, and Theories of Epic in Swift’s A Description of a City Shower
David Venturo
Chapter 9: Tension, Contraries, and Blake’s Augustan Values
Philip Smallwood
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors

About the Author

KEVIN L. COPE is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. 
CEDRIC D. REVERAND II is George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

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"Kudos to Bucknell University Press for publishing this book, which has many of the characteristics of a traditional festschrift despite not being in honor of a still-living academic. Rather this is a tribute by academics to a non- academic publisher who was as important to the pursuit of 18th-century studies as any other single person. It appears in an era when too many collections are simply rewritten conference papers of dubious quality and only an alleged thematic unity. It is refreshing to read...Everyone will find something of interest here."— Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
"[T]he collection is well balanced, with a good mix of subjects and methodologies. Paper, Ink, and Achievement is marked by the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that has always characterized most of the best work in eighteenth-century studies."— Martine Brownley, author of Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
"As its title indicates, Pen, Ink, and Achievement: Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship, is a festschrift honoring the late head and owner of AMS Press, a stalwart house that devoted much of its energies to promoting scholarship of the long eighteenth century. This collection of innovative and largely stylistically lucid essays written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field will be of keen interest to most eighteenth-century scholars and of particular importance to those specializing in print studies and publishing, neglected authors, and reevaluations of important writers such as Pope, Swift, and Blake."— Anthony Lee, author of Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle

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